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Kênio Estrela

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
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  • Quine and holism
    AL-Mukhatabat. forthcoming.
    Holism is a well-known and discussed theory in several fields of philosophy, especially in the field of epistemology and the philosophy of language. Willard Van Orman Quine was one of the leading analytical philosophers to argue about this topic in the last 70 years. The objective of this paper is to present how Quine developed his holistic arguments, identifying the texts in which they appear, and finally to present our interpretation of how epistemological holism and meaning holism work in the…Read more
    Meaning HolismW. V. O. Quine
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    El papel de la música en la educación según la Política de Aristóteles
    Fragmentos de Cultura 28 (n.4): 465-471. 2018.
    Music is a multifaceted discipline. It has repercussions in the most diverse areas of knowledge. It appears strongly in the development of education and philosophy since antiquity. As a representation of this importance we can find in Book VIII of Aristotle’s Politics an important argumentation about the role of music in the education of young people and adults in the polis. This paper will present an interpretation of Aristotle’s perspective on the role of music in education.
    AristotlePhilosophy of MusicPhilosophy of Education
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    Moderate Holism: Answering to Criticism and Explaining Linguistic Phenomena
    Fragmentos de Cultura 28 (n.2): 258-270. 2018.
    In this paper I present a version of meaning holism proposed by Henry Jackman (1999a, 1999b, 2005 and 2015) entitled "moderate holism". I will argue that this moderate version of holism, in addition to responding to much of the criticism attributed to traditional semantic holism (such as translation, disagreement, change of mind and communication), is also extremely useful to explain the occurrence of several, such as vagueness and polysemy.
    SemanticsVagueness and IndeterminacyMeaning HolismAmbiguity and Polysemy